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Earth science
Any of several geological sciences that are concerned with the earth, its origins, and all of its various structures and physical forms and phenomena.
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numerical stability
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In numerical modeling, a numerical computational scheme is said to be stable if the infinite set of computed solutions of the discrete algebraic equations created by the process ...
layer coordinates
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In numerical modeling, a system of vertical coordinates where an arbitrary number of layers are specified in which some fluid property (e.g. density) remains constant, i.e. an ...
level coordinates
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In numerical modeling, a vertical coordinate system in which a arbitrary number of height or depth levels are specified at which the changing values of the various dependent ...
pseudospectral method
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In numerical modeling, an approximation which uses interpolating functions to estimate derivatives of fields represented on a grid in physical space. It is so-called because the ...
diagnostic
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In numerical modeling, an equation is diagnostic if the present value of a dependent variable is calculated from the present value(s) of one or more dependent variables.
prognostic
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In numerical modeling, an equation is prognostic if the future value of a dependent variable is predicted from the present value(s) of one or more dependent variables.
implicit scheme
Earth science; Physical oceanography
In numerical modeling, an integration algorithmthat temporally advances an approximate solution via discrete steps using information from present as well as from previous time ...
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